On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 21:58:23 +0100 Nicolai Stange <nicstange@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi Dan, >> >> your recent commit 7b79d10a2d64 ("mm: convert kmalloc_section_memmap() to >> populate_section_memmap()") seems to cause some issues with respect to >> Kasan initialization on x86. >> >> This is because Kasan's initialization (ab)uses the arch provided >> vmemmap_populate(). >> >> The first one is a boot failure, see [1/3]. The commit before the >> aforementioned one works fine. >> >> The second one, i.e. [2/3], is something that hit my eye while browsing >> the source and I verified that this is indeed an issue by printk'ing and >> dumping the page tables. >> >> The third one are excessive warnings from vmemmap_verify() due to Kasan's >> NUMA_NO_NODE page populations. > > urggggh. > > That means these two series: > > mm-fix-type-width-of-section-to-from-pfn-conversion-macros.patch > mm-devm_memremap_pages-use-multi-order-radix-for-zone_device-lookups.patch > mm-introduce-struct-mem_section_usage-to-track-partial-population-of-a-section.patch > mm-introduce-common-definitions-for-the-size-and-mask-of-a-section.patch > mm-cleanup-sparse_init_one_section-return-value.patch > mm-track-active-portions-of-a-section-at-boot.patch > mm-track-active-portions-of-a-section-at-boot-fix.patch > mm-track-active-portions-of-a-section-at-boot-fix-fix.patch > mm-fix-register_new_memory-zone-type-detection.patch > mm-convert-kmalloc_section_memmap-to-populate_section_memmap.patch > mm-prepare-for-hot-add-remove-of-sub-section-ranges.patch > mm-support-section-unaligned-zone_device-memory-ranges.patch > mm-support-section-unaligned-zone_device-memory-ranges-fix.patch > mm-support-section-unaligned-zone_device-memory-ranges-fix-2.patch > mm-enable-section-unaligned-devm_memremap_pages.patch > libnvdimm-pfn-dax-stop-padding-pmem-namespaces-to-section-alignment.patch > Yes, let's drop these and try again for 4.12. Thanks for the report and the debug Nicolai! > and > > mm-devm_memremap_pages-hold-device_hotplug-lock-over-mem_hotplug_begin-done.patch > mm-validate-device_hotplug-is-held-for-memory-hotplug.patch No, these are separate and are still valid for the merge window. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>